Dear Gamers,

It is our honor to announce that Astral Avarice was one of the games selected to be shown during the Big Mode 2025 Game Jam stream! The fans may rejoice. Here is a link to the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2381962450?t=1h1m3s

We would like to thank Big Mode and the jam organizers and judges, and those who rated our game during the voting period. And we would like to thank videogamedunkey for playing Astral Avarice!

Since the jam, we’ve been making some visual improvements, and we thought now would be a good time to share a sneak peek of those.

You may notice that the planets and stars are now a little more spherical. This is because they are.

We’ve also incorporated some 2D lighting and normal maps to give the minimalist vector-art textures that realistic feel they were missing.

Biggy is more spherical now too.

These visuals are not finalized yet and are subject to change. Additionally, we plan on making some improvements to the tutorials and balance changes - including adjusting the difficulty of levels.

One of the most common criticisms about Astral Avarice is that the game over screen is, “the meanest game over screen ever.” Unfortunately, we ran the numbers, and found that we cannot afford to amend the game over screen in our upcoming changes. Finding the game over screen asset, clicking on the main textbox, clicking on the text field, and changing the text simply exceeds our available resources. Sorry, Dunkey.

 Construct, Destroy, and Profit.

Love,

Archibald Faugno and William Erignac